A Powershell Replacement for wmic

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:39:52 +0100

If you’ve tried to use the wmic command in Windows 11 recently you’ll probably receive this error message:

“wmic: The term ‘wmic’ is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.”

The wmic command is no longer part of Windows 11. I used to use wmic a lot to get model and manufacture information, primarily for drivers. Luckily this command has a PowerShell replacement.

`1`	`Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Bios`

`1`	`Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_ComputerSystem`

Both of the above can be used to obtain manufacturer and model information for a system.

Thanks
-Mike

wmic on gal.vin

A Powershell Replacement for wmic